Work can have a significant impact on people’s mental health. Employers can help to foster a mentally healthy workplace, for example by taking action to prevent and manage stress and training line managers on mental wellbeing.
Global health and security business tells Personnel Today about its operations in the two countries.
Why are women more vulnerable to burnout and how can organisations prevent, and support employees suffering from, unmanageable stress?
A third of the country does not have access to obesity treatment, despite weight having become a growing issue during...
Occupational health professionals need to be proactive in supporting workers living with obesity to remain in work.
More than 10 million workers in the UK have called in sick as a result of feeling burnt out, a...
Anxiety and depression has increased by 25% globally, while one in three UK employees took time off work in 2021 for their mental health.
The EHRC's head of policy says that, in the absence of clear legislation, employers should treat staff who have long Covid as if they have a disability.
The NHS has set out plans for people with mental health needs to be seen, diagnosed and treated much more...
Prof Marcantonio Spada looks at the role that OH professionals have in promoting and facilitating access to cognitive behaviroual therapy to treat insomnia.
Occupational health programmes specifically for health workers should be developed at national, regional and organisational levels, United Nations bodies have recommended.
Employers and the government need to do more to address the health and wellbeing risks related to remote working, and...
Employers have been urged to be cautious and to remember their legal duty to keep employees safe at work as...
A worker who was called an ‘old white man’ by a colleague, whose comments eventually led to him being signed...
Nearly eight in 10 (78%) managers admit they struggle to spot the signs of poor mental health among their employees,...
People working in environments where there is a mismatch between the efforts spent on doing their role and the rewards...
